This schedule provides a tentative outline of each class period and links to handouts given in class. It is not definitive, and will change over the course of the semester.

• 4/29: Brief review for final exam. Final exam, including programming portion in lab.
• 4/22: Review of Homework. Review for final exam. Discussion of Chapter 17. Course evaluation. Lab work on sample exam questions.
• 4/15: Review of Homework. Complete discussion of Chapter 7. Sorting a linked list exercise. Discussion of linked lists, queues and stacks. Guest speaker Bill Schofield from Midway Games.
• 4/8: Return and review Midterm. Demonstration of insertion sort. Discussion of Chapter 7. Modify Deitel and Deitel's BubbleSort.java program to sort a list in descending order. (Here is the running applet.)
• 4/1: Review for Midterm. Midterm. Reader's guide to chapter 7.
• 3/25: Review of homework. Discussion of chaos and the Mandelbrot set. Review for midterm -- arrays, classes, graphics, recursion, and efficiency. In lab, complete Mandelbrot Set applet, experiment with Life game, Java demo of the efficiency of different sort algorithms. (Connect to http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1396/algorithms.html for descriptions of several efficient sort algorithms.)
• 3/11: Review of homework. Discussion of Fibonacci recursive and iterative methods. The scope of a class and its methods; class ComplexTest.java. Graphics for beginners; fillRect and a Java Life game. Introduction to the Mandelbrot set. Java demo of the efficiency of different sort algorithms. (Connect to http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1396/algorithms.html for descriptions of several efficient sort algorithms.)
• 3/4: Review of homework; small group work on 6.2 if necessary. Constructors, set, and get methods of objects. Comparing the complexity, efficiency, and usefulness of an iterative Fibonacci applet and the recursive Fibonacci applet.
• 2/25: Review of homework. Data structures and arrays. What methods and attributes should a class SquareMatrix have? Object oriented programming and classes. Method overloading (example InitArray.java). Work on posting Java quizzes on the web.
• 2/18: Review of homework (especially 4.40.) Review for exam. Midterm exam.
• 2/11: Review of homework. Names, parameters, scope and return-value-types in methods from examples Rational.java and RationalTest.java; recursion. Review for exam. Begin coding Quiz applet.
• 2/4: Review of homework. Flow of control in a program; the break command and more on the switch command. The assets of switch commands and defects of break commands. The idea of a method; groups of students choose a game and record the stages of game play. E.g. Monopoly consists of setup (handing out money, choosing tokens, laying out the board, shuffling cards), then an iterative loop of one turn per player while no-one has yet won, then putting the game away. The turns proceed clockwise around the board, with each turn consisting of rolling the dice, moving the piece, and interacting with the square the piece ands on. Methods of a Java applet (pp. 44, 132): methods init, paint, and actionPerformed. Mallard, a sample on-line quiz program, and other Java applets.
• 1/28: Review of homework. How to develop a program: flowcharts and pseudocode. Control structures: sequence structure (step by step evaluation), selection structure (if/else, switch), and repetition structure (for, while, do/while.) Write a flowchart and pseudocode to grade a single multiplication problem. Write, compile, and run a program to administer and grade a single multiplication problem (see discussion of Math.random method on pp. 182.) If time permits, modify the program to keep running until the student gets the right answer.
• 1/21: Review of homework. Review of terms. Quick summary of graphical user interface features, introduction to if/else. Write down the steps a computer must take to add two numbers. Convert those steps into a Java program. Variables and computer memory, +=, ++. Compile and run that program.
• 1/14: Survey of interests and abilities. Introduction to programming, html, and Java. PBJ in-class exercise. Reading and understanding a simple Java program. Reading, understanding, and using a simple web page and applet. Creating and compiling Java programs and applets in SEL 2249 or on icarus.